I remember listening to Tales From The Thousand Lakes and being pretty excited about it when "Black Winter Day" and "Drowned Maid" in succession raised my hopes after a shaky start to the album. Then "In the Beginning" started to play and I slowly began to realize that I was being fucked in the ass. That's what happened to Amorphis.

The Karelian Isthmus/Privilege of Evil is pretty awesome but fuck these guys. I clicked on the link and saw acoustic guitars and a chubby dude blowing a flute and I instantly closed it. Cynical, I'm almost pissed off that you would alert us to such gayness.

The Karelian Isthmus/Privilege of Evil is pretty awesome but fuck these guys. I clicked on the link and saw acoustic guitars and a chubby dude blowing a flute and I instantly closed it. Cynical, I'm almost pissed off that you would alert us to such gayness.

The Karelian Isthmus/Privilege of Evil is pretty awesome but fuck these guys. I clicked on the link and saw acoustic guitars and a chubby dude blowing a flute and I instantly closed it. Cynical, I'm almost pissed off that you would alert us to such gayness.

Oh, you missed the "best" parts, like the chick smiling into the camera while shaking a mariachi, and the singer (whose name I don't actually know) "singing" one of the riffs from late in the song with a jazz-style "la la la la lie lie lie".

Also, the crowd is hilarious. Especially the goth chick who nods along in a desperate attempt to look like she cares at all, even though it's clear that she's bored out of her mind.

That has to be the most unintentionally funny decline of a death metal band I've ever heard of.

...Morbid Angel.

For whatever reason, the Finnish regional scene went to much higher levels of fagotry than any other. EX: Finntroll, Ensiferum, Turisas, COB.

Morbid Angel was funny, but it was more "this is just fucking sad" funny. This Amorphis video is legitimately hilarious as they're trying to be a part of the "hip" scene SOOOOOO bad, or at least that's how this vid appears.

Also, Sweden has crap like Soilwork, In Flames, etc. Pretty pathetic in its own right. A lot of what we mentioned are just power metal bands failing at power metal, so then they attempt to integrate death metal, and fail at that too (add in also optional failing when using folk influences).

Don't know what you guys are talking about. Amorphis died in that same bush crash as Sentenced back in 1994. Scandinavian mass transit should really hold their drivers to higher standards.

But seriously, I am hoping that Tomi Koivusaari has a retro-death project of at least Vallenfyre quality level in him somewhere. Otherwise, the continued existence of this band is rather sad. Gotta love that porno sax, though.